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,059- Patented Apr. 3, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CUMBERLAND MASSIE AND JOSIAH LEGAN, OF LONG LANE, MISSOURI.

CHURN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,059, dated April 3, 1883.

Application filed December 29, 1882.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, CUMBERLAND MAssIE and J osIAH LEGAN, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Long Lane, in the county of Dallas and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Churns, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention pertains to improvements in churns, and has reference more especially to the dasher, its object being to facilitate the churning operation or processs and to effect the thorough conversion of the cream; and it consists in the construction of the dasher with an approximate pyramidal-shaped crown7 or deilector fastened to the statt' or shaft, with parallel apertured or perforated bars arranged upon the staff below the crown, and with hinged or vibrating wings or beaters hung upon the parallel bars and controlled as to movement by stops disposed above said wings or beaters and upon the sides ot' the said bars, substantially as hereinafter more fully setforth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a sectional elevation of the churn, and Fig. 2 is a detailed perspective view of the dasher. Fig. 3 is a sectional View ofthe same.

In carrying out our invention we employ a suitable cream receptacle or vessel,A, preferably cylindric in the present instance, and supported in a frame, B, with divergent legs resting on the floor or ground to hold it steady during the churning operation.

To an upwardly-exteuding arm or bracket,

a, of the frame B is pivoted or articulated the.

lever or handle C, connected to the upper end of the dasher stati' or shaft D. The staff or shaft D passes through and works up and down in an elongated slotiu the cover b of the receptacle or vessel A, its lower end extending to near the bottom of the said receptacle, where it is provided with the dasher, the construction of which is as follows:

E is an approximate pyramidal shaped crown or deilector, affixed at its apex toJ the staff or shaft, the latter passing through it; also secured to the staff, a short distance below the deflector, are parallel perforated or apertured bars F, arranged edgewise to the deflector, a space, F', being left between them, the function of which will be presently uustood. This space or passage is provided by arranging them on opposite sides of the staff.

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G G are wings or beaters, each being preferably semicircular in shape, which are hinged, so as to have a vibrating action when the dashcr is in operation, at their straight edges to the sides of the parallel bars F. These wings or beaters are limited in their upward movement by cross-pieces or stops c, fastened to the upper edges of the bars F and projecting beyond the upper edges of the wings, their downward and inward movement being governed by the cleats or stops c' c', the latter being inclined, with the slant outward toward their lower ends, to prevent the closing up the perl'orations in the bars F by the wings at any time.

It will be noticed that the action of the wings or beaters G upon the cream during the downward stroke or movement of the stati` or shaft is to force it (the cream) through the apertures or perforations of the parallel bars F, breaking the globules, up between said bars or through the passage Fand into and against the detlecting-surt'ace of the crown or detiector E, still further acting upon and comminuting the globules of cream. From the detiector or crown E, during the upward movement of the d'asher staff or shaft, the partiallychurned cream passes down through the passage F', while by the same movement of the statt' or shaft the action of the wings G upon the cream causes it to be forced against the sides of the receptacle or vessel, which further reduces the globules of cream and effects the thorough conversion ot' the cream, while it also facilitates the churning process or operation.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim and desiie t0 secure by Letters Patent- A churn-dasher consisting of the approximate pyramidal-shaped crown or deilector E, the perforated or apertured parallel bars F, with a space or passage, F', between them, said parts being secured to the staff or shaft D, and of the hinged or articulated wings or beaters G, and the stops c, connected to the parallel bars F, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we afIix our signatures, in presence ot' two witnesses, this the 20th day of December, 1882.

OUMBERLAND MASSIE. JOSIAH LEGAN. Witnesses:

WILLIAM G. PREsToN, J. V. TURNER..

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